CFP: [Film] Cinema and Childhood

Looking for essays for a two-volume series on depictions of childhood and adolescence ininternational cinema. We encourage theoretical and multidisciplinary approaches that includeserious scholarship in the following areas: cinema studies, childrenâ€™s literature, adolescentliterature, and the history, psychology, and philosophy of childhood and adolescence. Essays shouldoffer close analyses of film texts from different national, transnational, historical, and multiculturalperspectives. Interested in different varieties of film: documentary, nonfiction, experimental, andnarrative.

Topics may include but are not limited to:Changing views and conceptions of adolescence, Poverty, Class, Sexuality,Gender, Masculinity, Femininity, Diaspora and Exile, Conceptions of self, Law, Narrativity,Friendship, War, Politics, Environmental and ecological issues, Adolescence and childhood inrelation to social institutions including (but not limited to): church and religion, family, school, work